Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust

15 reviews

hiddeninfantasy's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Torture, Animal death, Death, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, War, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

infjkiki's review

adventurous emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, War, Violence, Kidnapping, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Toxic relationship

bzliz's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This was a new type of demonology for me and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Influenced by the Middle East- both ancient and modern- we follow the cursed princess Soraya who is doomed to kill anyone she touches as she discovers not everyone and everything is how it seems. 

Some of the twists are easily predicted but I didn’t feel cheated in figuring them out. In fact, I felt they were justified because Melissa Bashardoust did an exceptional job of capturing our heroine’s choices throughout her evolution. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Kidnapping

veerau's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A very interesting read! It was surprising to see a book focused on persian mythology, unexpected but absolutely loved! 

The setting was beautiful, and after reading the extra info at the end of the book the characters become even more interesting... 

Spoiler

One thing I was so glad about was the ending, so very glad that Soraya found how to coexist with her unusual powers instead of blindly getting rid of them, perhaps becoming what she feared? But in a good way

Oh and the cover is beautiful, one of the prettiest books on my shelf now hehe (that wasn't a chore to read as well!) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, and Abandonment

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

kaitlyng's review

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic relationship

lennie_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, War, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Gore

veskumelooni's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, and Death

kbairbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A sleeping beauty retelling! With Persian influence?! Wow I really enjoyed this! I love how the romance was subtle but had a nice feel to it and that the parent wasn’t entirely useless and that a man wasn’t the one to step through and save the day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Torture, Violence, Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

pastelkerstin's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Emotional abuse, Death, Abandonment, Blood, Toxic relationship, Murder, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Confinement

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Homophobia and Biphobia

stardust_heidi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Murder